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Toads Revisited by: Philip Larkin

The poem describe a midlife crisis from the viewpoint of a middle age man, and lists the prejudices he has adopted for himself to justify his life.

What he does not realize is that in cleawing to those prejudices, by despising the weak and infirm, the recuperating and the young, he also distances himself from life and loses the ability to simply live it.

Instead he is left only with his 'power' to lord it over his secretary and office workers, while dreading the end of working hours when he will have nothing to do but go home and be a person among others. A fate akin to death, in his view.

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